it doesn't seem to create solidarity or even necessarily people with pronounced killer-instincts. My feeling is that if you have the technology and scientific know-how to clone people, could you not just bypass this weird-ass plan altogether and just filter out the genetic weaknesses to make strong supersoldier-type individuals? could you not just create an ideal human warrior without all the fanfare? i mean, the system is not used as a social tool like in hunger games it isn't televised for entertainment or instruction or punishment.
Parents who want to conceive go to a clinic and their genes are randomly mixed with those of another couple, and then both prospective mothers are implanted with the seedlings of these mixed-gene babies, creating two little clones.Īnd then they are supposed to train them as mini-warriors because when the children are between 10 and 20, they will one day "activate" and they will have a month to kill their "alt" which will create a society of strong fighters in case the war from outside their perimeters ever comes knocking.
Well, despite having found a cure for the common cold (yay!) this cure has caused infertility in humans (oops!) so the scientists have stepped in with a plan that sounds straight out of some sadistic kid's daydreams: somehow, the upper western quarter or so has established a sort of fortress-like city, called "kersh", which has its own resources, and is protected from the rest of the country. but i'm not sure it is fun enough to wash away the oversights and underdeveloped-ness that are still bothering me.īasically, in this version of the world, the united states is a war zone. on the other hand, most of this "world" MAKES NO SENSE.īut how much does that matter, when you are reading a lightweight YA dysto-sci-fi novel?i have a tendency to shrug off inconsistencies depending on the answer to the following question: On the one hand - it is a book about twins (clones) where, by law, one must eventually kill the other, thereby leaving only one human instead of two, the way it should be (see shelf title).
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